Harvard Reference Examples
Examples of how to reference Books, E-mails, Journals, Websites and more in the Harvard Style
The Harvard Referencing System is one of the preferred layouts for citing sources, mainly used in academic work. It is a relatively strict way of arranging the information in the bibliography section of essays and reports.
Different types of media have different formats under the Harvard System.
Example of Referencing a Book
Example of Referencing an Email
Example of Referencing a Film
The Harvard Reference Generator tool on this site takes in the raw information - things like author, title, year of publication - and creates the reference in the correct form.
You can then highlight and copy this into the bibliography section of your report - arranging them alphabetically by authors' surnames.
You then reference this next to the relevant section within the main text of your essay in the format (Author, Year) such as (Smith, 1983).
If you are citing more than one work from the same author in the same year, you add a letter to the year to differentiate them (not the first one, though)
Choose a Type of Reference
Click on one of the following to go to the correct form to create a reference in the standard Harvard citation format